The Undeclared War between Journalism and Fiction

In this volume, Doug Underwood asks whether much of what is now called literary journalism is, in fact, 'literary,' and whether it should rank with the great novels by such journalist-literary figures as Twain, Cather, and Hemingway, who believed that fiction was the better place for a realistic writer to express the important truths of life.

Autorentext

Doug Underwood is a Professor in the department of Communications at the University of Washington, USA.

Inhalt

1. Journalists Challenging the Boundaries of Journalism and Fiction 2. Artful Falsehoods and the Constraints of the Journalist's Life 3. Hemingway as Seeker of the 'Real Thing' and the Epistemology of Art 4. The Funhouse Mirror: Journalists Portraying Journalists in Their Fiction